We love settling down in entrance of the TV on weekday afternoons to watch BBC One’s hit daytime present, Antiques Road Trip.
The sequence sees two antiques consultants go head to head as they journey up and down the UK in quest of treasures they will purchase and promote at public sale in the hopes of creating the most cash.
Whereas the present’s strong format retains viewers coming again, a significant a part of what makes the present so in style is its line-up of pleasant presenters. However who’re they? Meet them beneath.
Izzie Balmer
Izzie is an auctioneer and jewelry professional who you will recognise from varied different BBC daytime exhibits, together with Discount Hunt and The Travelling Auctioneers.
The presenter, who hails from Derby, beforehand labored as Head Valuer and Auctioneer at the Wessex Public sale Rooms in Wiltshire earlier than leaving the position in December final yr to commit to her TV profession full-time.
Mark Hill
Mark has labored with antiques and collectables ever since leaving the College of Studying, the place he studied Historical past of Artwork & Structure.
The 49-year-old has been a specialist in the miscellaneous and collectables groups on Antiques Roadshow since 2007. He is additionally the ‘Collectables and 20th Century Design’ specialist for a world sequence of books and has even revealed books of his personal.
Natasha Raskin Sharp
Antiques and artwork professional Natasha is a well-recognized face on our screens thanks to her roles in Discount Hunt and Flog It!.
The Glasgow-born presenter, who just lately welcomed her first little one together with her husband Joe Sharp, has her dad, artist Philip Raskin, to thank for her profitable profession as he was the one who “gently nudged” her in the path of the vintage commerce and public sale homes.
“[He] thought that I would be well-suited to the setting,” she beforehand instructed the BBC. “Though I would by no means usually admit it, he was completely proper!”
Steven Moore
Steven is an auctioneer, creator and curator whose ardour for antiques started throughout his childhood. “My father taught ceramics so I grew up with clay as a toy,” he beforehand instructed the BBC. “The transformation of earth into an object of permanence has at all times fascinated me: I used to dig bottles from outdated suggestions and even skived off cross nation in school to do that – bottles led to native pottery.”
The presenter, who joined Antiques Roadshow again in 2004, was a guide editor to Miller Publications for a few years and has written for magazines equivalent to Nation Life, Gardens Illustrated and Properties and Antiques.
Irita Marriott
Irita is an antiques professional and vendor who joined the present in 2021. She runs her personal enterprise, Irita Marriott Antiques, and has been working in the antiques trade for a decade.
In accordance to her web site, the presenter was born in Latvia and moved to the UK in her early 20s. Irita, who’s married with two sons, beforehand labored as a cataloguer and a valuer in a number one public sale home primarily based in Derbyshire however now offers full-time.
Charles Hanson
Charles is maybe finest recognized for his work on Discount Hunt, having appeared on the present since 2002. He initially labored as a chartered surveyor earlier than turning his hand to auctioning and TV presenting.
On why he selected a profession in antiques, Charles instructed the BBC: “I selected to work with antiques as a result of I like historical past; the query ‘if the object might speak what wouldn’t it inform us‘ is what retains my curiosity; an public sale is a theatre of drama and romance.”
Away from the cameras, Charles has been married to his spouse Rebecca since 2010. The couple share two kids: a daughter named Matilda and a son, Frederick.
Raj is an antiques vendor and auctioneer professional specialising in tremendous artwork.
Opening up about his profession, he instructed the BBC: “I found early on {that a} 9-5 job was by no means going to be for me, so I turned my childhood love of outdated and dusty junk and vintage retailers into my job and, later, profession.”
Prior to his broadcasting profession, Raj labored in the British Military and likewise as a ski teacher in Austria. Alongside his TV gigs, Raj runs Bentley’s Positive Artwork and Antiques Auctioneers along with his enterprise associate.
Philip Serrell
Philip is an auctioneer and antiques professional who’s been on our screens for a few years in varied exhibits, together with Discount Hunt and Flog It!
Earlier than his TV profession, Philip labored as a PE and geography trainer. After deciding to change careers, he labored his first job as an auctioneer promoting animals in a livestock market. He went on to qualify as a Chartered Surveyor, specialising in Positive Artwork and Antiques.
When he isn’t on our TV screens, Philip runs his personal public sale home.
David Harper
David is an antiques & Traditional Automotive professional who had a lifelong ardour for historical past and vintage objects, having purchased his first vintage at 9 years outdated.
At the age of 23, David joined a PLC firm as a director chargeable for sourcing and importing antique-style furnishings from the Far East, making him one among the youngest PLC administrators in the UK at the time.
When he isn’t filming for the BBC, David runs an antiques enterprise in Florida and likewise brokers the sale of artwork, antiques and traditional vehicles on behalf of purchasers.
James Braxton
James has develop into a favorite on the present since becoming a member of in 2016. The antiques professional and auctioneer, who hails from East Sussex, is a daily on a number of BBC daytime exhibits, together with Superstar Eggheads, Discount Hunt and Coping with Dickinson.
Away from the present, James is a profitable businessman and even runs his personal pub. He is additionally the founding director of The Positive Artwork Public sale Group and one among seven founders of the e-commerce enterprise iBrax.com.
Roo Irvine
Roo is an antiques vendor and tv presenter from Scotland. Away from her TV profession, Roo owns Kilcreggan Antiques, an vintage retailer in her hometown of Argyll and Bute in Scotland.
The presenter, who’s been married to her husband Mark since 2012, joined the present in 2018. “After a go to to our store in early 2015, I bought a name from the producers, a couple of months after it was broadcast, in early 2016,” she beforehand stated. “I used to be requested if I might think about becoming a member of the BBC workforce of consultants! After 12 months of conferences, shadowing, display screen checks and many learning, I used to be instructed I used to be ‘in’.”
Ishy Khan
Ishy is an antiques professional and vendor with over 12 years of expertise working in the jewelry trade. Away from the present, he runs an vintage and up to date jewelry firm in London that sources distinctive jewelry for purchasers.
Antiques Road Trip is obtainable to stream on BBC iPlayer.